Tag.



C. B. TEWKSBURY.

`TAG.

APPLICATION FILED MAH. 1910.

Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

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.Mild ihlflil @FFQE CHARLES B. TEVKSBURY, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO SECURITY TAG COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CRPOBATON OF MAINE.

TAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented ret. e, isis.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, CHARLns B. Tnwi'snner, ay citizen of the United States, residing in Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Tags, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to a shipping or like tag of that class in which one or more strings or like flexible attaching devices are eX- tended longitudinally of the tag between the two layers or sheets thereof.

The invention has for one of its objects to provide a superior tag of the character specified, in which, preferably provision is made for obtaining a Hat, unbroken surface for printing and addressing purposes. Further, in the preferred form of my device the string is locked against longitudinal and lateral movement at its free end, thereby reducing to a minimum the danger of the f' layers of the tag being separated by lateral movement of the free end of the string, and also of the tag being rendered kuseless by one of the layers being torn or split longitudinally as will be described. These and other objects of my invention will be hereinafter referred to and the novel combinations of elements whereby said objects may be attained will be more particularly pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

Figure l is a plan of one form of tag embodying this invention. Fig. 2, a plan of the tag shown in Fig. l inverted. Fig. 3, a cross section on the line 8 3, Fig. 2. Fig. 4f, a cross section on the line 4 4, Fig. 2, and Fig. 5, a detail in cross section of the tag shown in Fig. 2 with the parts separated.

The tag herein shown as embodying this invention is composed of two superimposed layers a, o, of paper or other suitable material, which are cemented or gummed or otherwise secured together' and between which one or more strings, wires or other flexible attaching devices c are located. In the present instance, two spring c are represented as extended longitudinally of the tag between the layers a, b, thereof, and one of the features of the present invention consists in providing a tag having the longitudinally extended springs or flexible de vices c, with a flat, unbroken surface for printing or addressing purposes like the ordinary tag (not shown) but which is provided at one end with an eye for the attachment of the string.

ln order to provide for the flat, unbroken surface of a tag having a longitudinally eX- tended string or strings c, one of the layers as a is provided with a longitudinally eX- tended groove CZ formed in it, for the reception of the said string. The groove Z may and preferably will be provided with curved side walls l0, l2, which conform in shape to the form of the strings c and thereby increase the surface contact between the layer a and the strings, with the result that a firmer and better engagement of the strings with the layers of paper is obtained, and the curved side walls of the groove serve as `locking devices for the string against lateral movement at or near the free ends of the strings, thereby reducing to a minimum the danger of the separation of the layers a, o, by lateral movement of the free ends of the strings.

Provision may also be made for reinforcing the tag transversely and for locking the strings against movement tending to strip them from one or the other of the layers thereof, whereby the danger of designedly or inadvertently destroying the tag is prevented. To this end, l employ preferably two transversely extended threads or other flexible devices 20, 2l, located between the layers a, b, one above and the other below the longitudinal strings c as clearly represented in Fig. 5.

The transverse strings 20, 21 are secured to the inner surfaces of the layers o, by the cement lor other adhesive substance employed to secure the layers a, o, together, and the transverse string 2O is provided with the portion 23 arched in conformity with the shape of the groove 6l, and this arched portion also serves to reinforce the side walls of the groove and prevent separation of the layers a, o, by lateral movement or strain on the free ends of the longitudinal strings c.

The transverse reinforcing devices or threads 20, 21, which are and may be materially thinner than the longitudinally extended strings c, are located above and below said longitudinal strings and serve as locking devices or stops for said strings, and

thereby prevent either or both layers a, b being torn or split by pulling the stringsc longitudinally of the tag.

By reference to the drawing, it will be seen that if the strings c or either of them are attempted to be moved longitudinally of the tag, they are arrested by one thread, as 20, if the tear is started in the layer a and by the thread 21 if the tear is started in the layer Z9.

The transverse reinforcing devices may be threads, line wire or other suitable 1naterial.

Ihile I prefer to incorporate the transverse threads in a tag having one of its layers grooved longitudinally for the reception of the attaching string or strings, I do not desire to limit the invention in this respect.

The layers a, l), may be formed from two separate sheets or layers, but herein, also, the invention is not to be regarded as being limited to such construction. f

Claims.

l. A tag of the character described, comprising layers of paper or like material secured together and one of which is provided with a longitudinally extended groove, an attaching string or like device extended longitudinally of the tag between said layers and located in said groove, and reinforcing devices extended transversely of said tag between said layers on opposite sides of the attaching string or device and across the groove, substantially as described.

2. A tag of the character described, comprising layers of paper or like material selongitudinally of the tag between said layers and located in said groove, and a reinforcing device extended transversely of said tag between said attaching string or device and said grooved layer and extended into the groove of the latter, substantially as described.

3. A tag of the characterdescribed comprising layers of paper or like material secured together, an attaching string or the like extended longitudinally of the tag between said layers, and a reinforcing device extended transversely of said tag adjacent said attaching device and between said layers, said reinforcing device consisting of an independent flexible element.

4. A tag of the character described coniprising layers of paper or like material secured together', an attaching string or the like extended longitudinally of the tag between said layers and a plurality of reinforcing devices extended transversely of said tag adjacent said attaching device and between said layers, said reinforcing devices consisting of independent iexible elements.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES B. TEWKSBURY.

Vitnesses:

Jas. H. CHURCHILL, J. MURPHY.

Copies of Athis patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing `the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

